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        <p>OSCsend — 
      Sends data to other processes using the OSC protocol
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        <h2>Description</h2>
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      Uses the OSC protocol to send message to other OSC listening processes.
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        <h2>Syntax</h2>
        <pre class="synopsis"><span class="command"><strong>OSCsend</strong></span> kwhen, ihost, iport, idestination, itype [, kdata1, kdata2, ...]</pre>
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      <span class="emphasis"><em>ihost</em></span>
      -- a string that is the intended host computer domain name.  An
    empty string is interpreted as the current computer.
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      <span class="emphasis"><em>iport</em></span>
      -- the number of the port that is used for the communication.
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      <span class="emphasis"><em>idest</em></span>
      -- a string that is the destination address.  This takes the
      form of a file name with directories.  Csound just passes this
      string to the raw sending code and makes no interpretation.
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      <span class="emphasis"><em>itype</em></span>
      -- a string that indicates the types of the optional arguments
      that are read at k-rate.  The string can contain the characters
      "bcdfilmst" which stand for Boolean, character, double, float,
      32-bit integer, 64-bit integer, MIDI, string and timestamp.
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      <span class="emphasis"><em>kwhen</em></span> -- a message is sent whenever this
    value changes.  A message will always be sent on the first call.
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      The data is taken from the k-values that follow the format
    string.   In a similar way to a printf format, the characters in
    order determine how the argument is interpreted.  Note that a time
    stamp takes two arguments.
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        <h2>Example</h2>
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      The example shows a simple instrument, which when called, sends a group of 3 messages to a computer called "xenakis", on port 7770, to be read by a process that recognises /foo/bar as its address.
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      <span class="oblock">instr</span>   1
          <span class="opc">OSCsend</span>     1, "xenakis.cs.bath.ac.uk",7770, "/foo/bar", "sis", "FOO", 42, "bar"
      <span class="oblock">endin</span></pre>
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      See the entry for <a class="link" href="OSClisten.html" title="OSClisten"><em class="citetitle">OSClisten</em></a>, for an example of send/recieve usage using OSC.
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        <h2>See Also</h2>
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        <a class="link" href="OSClisten.html" title="OSClisten"><em class="citetitle">OSClisten</em></a>,
        <a class="link" href="OSCinit.html" title="OSCinit"><em class="citetitle">OSCinit</em></a>
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        <p> More information on this opcode: <a class="ulink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX1C3TqP_9Y" target="_top"><em class="citetitle">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX1C3TqP_9Y</em></a>  , made by Andrés Cabrera </p>
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            <td>Author: John ffitch</td>
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            <td>2005</td>
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